Fabrizio Romano

🚨🏆 Copa del Rey semi-finals. Real Madrid 🆚 Real Sociedad. Atlético Madrid 🆚 Barcelona.

🚨⚠️ Kai Havertz, set to miss the rest of season through hamstring injury — David Ornstein reports. One more blow for Arsenal as Havertz suffered a torn hamstring during training camp in Dubai.

👀💥 Paul Scholes said this about Lisandro Martinez: “Even when he is fit, he’s 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐠𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 to win a Premier League with...” ⚠️ …Licha responds back on Instagram by saying: “This jinx guy is really hurt....you put him in Argentina, and he wouldn’t survive” 👀😳

🚨⚪️ Vinicius Jr on Man City fans’ banner: “I was never scared in my life by any tifo, by rival fans...”. “I just want to help the squad and win for Real Madrid”.

🚨💣 Vinicius Jr: “We are talking about new contract. My desire is to stay here for long time, make history for Real Madrid”. “I always want to stay longer and longer! I hope in the next days we can resolve everything to stay for long time”.

⚪️⚫️ Juventus director Giuntoli: “We are very happy with Renato Veiga’s impact, same for Kelly. We needed two defenders”. “For Kolo Muani, we will talk to PSG in the summer. For sure we will try to keep him”.

⚪️✨ Ancelotti: “Champions League for Real Madrid is special. It’s tradition, it’s magic”. “I hope we can keep going with these great performances again and again”.

🚨🇨🇭 Former Man City left back Benjamin Mendy joins FC Zurich in Switzerland with immediate effect.

🚨🇩🇪 Bayern president Hainer: “As a football fan, you have to say: Florian Wirtz is an outstanding player”. “Uli Hoeneß recently said: You can always dream - I think so too. However, Florian Wirtz is under contract at Bayer Leverkusen”, told BILD.

🚨🔵🔴 Robert Lewandowski’s deal at Barcelona will be valid until June 2026, one more year. It’s never been in doubt and will be extended in the upcoming weeks, part of the current agreement. There was already the green light from both parties.

Ruben Dias: “I don't even know what to say; it's just not an easy one to take, especially after the game we played, the momentum we were going through. It's never easy to get out of one of these and then to let it go the way we did in the end, it's just very frustrating.”

Ruben Dias: “I'm just upset. It's frustrating. It's always going to be a different kind of game between us and them, and in the end there's chances both ways and you end up playing the last minutes at 2-1 and you cannot let it go. We have to do better, simple as that. In the end, we can say all we want but you cannot allow it. Now it's a matter of belief; how much do we believe in ourselves, how much do we believe we can go through. We know exactly the game we're going to play there, we've been there before, and it will only be about how much we believe in ourselves.”

Pep Guardiola on Vinicius Jr's performance vs. Man City: “Perhaps it [the pre-match banner] motivated him. He's an extraordinary player, Vinicius.”

Pep Guardiola: “There are many, many good things! We know which team we are playing and there are many good things that we played! But the result is what it is, and we are here in this business for results. But of course we did many good things, and in other things we can improve.” “I can't be angry with my team because we know the team that we're facing. The question is that sometimes when you're playing at this level, and you have that good result so close and to let it slip out of your hands, it's more difficult to accept.”

Pep Guardiola: “I said months ago; I'm not good enough to give something, the composure of the team and how to manage these kind of situations.”

Pep Guardiola: "Of course now is tough but we will recover, we have to think about Newcastle [on Saturday], and we are going to the Bernabeu and know what you have to do and we are going to think the game, to go to score goals.” “Ederson was our best player.” “After 2-1, it resumed a little bit of this season; many games happened against Feyenoord, against Sporting de Lisboa, against Brentford in the Premier League, and Man United, and many games like at the end we give it away... It's not the first time unfortunately, it's happened many times.”

Jack Grealish and Manuel Akanji could both be ruled out for Real Madrid vs. Man City in the UCL Last-16 Play-Off Second Leg, says Pep Guardiola. Pep: I don't know yet, but if they have gone out for muscular reasons, maybe they will not be there.”

Pep Guardiola: “Many times this has happened this season... Many times it's happened.” “In the second-half we tried to attack too quick and when that happens and you're not precise, they [Real Madrid] are quicker. After, what happened; sometimes you're not the best performance we've had in the last three seasons but it happened because they're an exceptional team. But it's happened many times.” “It's just bad decisions, that's all.”

John Stones: “How we started, especially first-half we were on top. We know the quality Madrid have got and know they're going to come out second-half and they've done that. What happened is avoidable from us as the 11 on the pitch and we've got to do better, simple as that. I'm the first to hold my hands up and look at what I can do better from the next game. We have to keep a positive mentality, look forward and we've got another 90 minutes to put this right.”

John Stones: “We need to see games out better, for sure. The manager just said we need to take accountability for what we do on the pitch and I think we do. We've got to step up when bad moments happen in games and we had a great opportunity to maybe go to the Bernabeu 2-1 up, and we've come away now needing a goal to get level. It's not done, we have to stay positive which is difficult right now, but we've got to review the game, look at ourselves, and hold ourselves accountable.”